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- Paulo Coelho on how he balances Twitter and Writing February 1, 2012Documented@Davos: Paulo Coehlo, Author from Michelle Laird on Vimeo.Brazilian Lyricist and Novelist Paulo Coelho was recently interviewed by The New York Times while in Davos. The interview is a real gem. Coelho discusses his thoughts on the future of the publishing industry (books aren't dead but the publishing industry is adrift); why he loves ebooks […]Joshua Fouts
- Today in 1990: the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens February 1, 2012Matt Novak, aka @Paleofuture just tweeted that today, well, today, January 31, 1990 was the day that McDonald's first opened its doors in the then-Soviet Union, now Russia.As novel as that thought was, even more interesting is Arizona State University graduate student and attorney John Carter McKnight's flickr feed of his 1989 attendance of the USS […]Joshua Fouts
- Artist of Note: Chile's Fab Ciraolo February 1, 2012The hot new artist of the season and the planet is sure to be Santiago, Chile-based Fab Ciraolo. Fab Ciraolo takes past-tense, seminal modern artists, performers, actors, musicians, et al (such as Frida Kahlo above, Salvador Dali and others) and mashes them up with contemporary artists. The above piece, showing Frida Kahlo wearing a Daft Punk t-shirt is a gr […]Joshua Fouts
- Beautiful Timelapse Video of São Paulo January 30, 2012#SP458 Timelapses from Julio Brunet Rocha on Vimeo.It's one of the most populated cities in Brazil with some of the worst possible traffic you can imagine. To wit, on a recent trip to Brazil, it took Rita J. King and me three hours to travel 30 kilometers (approximately 18 miles). But in this video you will witness at least part of the reason why São Pa […]Joshua Fouts
- Fibonacci Mathematical Theory Used to Disprove Spongebob's "Pineapple Under the Sea" January 24, 2012This video warms my heart in ways I really can't, uh, quantify. Khan Academy mathmusician, Vi Hart, has merged the beauty of the popular RSA animate style hand drawn stories, with the joys of Fibonacci's mathematical theorems, with the pleasure of one of the world's most insanely popular cartoon programs.Via Audrey Watters. […]Joshua Fouts